SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on record-breaking thirty sixth flight – Spaceflight Now

Update July 9, 6:47 a.m. EDT (1047 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the Starlink satellites.

SpaceX broke one other rocket reuse report Thursday morning when it launched its most-flown Falcon 9 booster for a thirty sixth time.

It flew in help of the Starlink 10-42 mission, which added one other 29 broadband web satellites to the corporate’s low Earth orbit constellation. SpaceX at present has greater than 10,700 Starlink satellites in orbit.

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 UTC). The rocket flew on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.



The forty fifth Weather Squadron forecast a 90 p.c probability for favorable climate Thursday morning. Meteorologists stated they’re awaiting a small interference from cumulus clouds.

“On Thursday morning, winds will be light and southwesterly, and a few offshore Atlantic showers are possible which could cause a small concern for the Cumulus Cloud Rule,” launch climate officers wrote. “Very similar conditions are expected for the backup day, as Saharan dust settles in the mid-levels and inhibits cumulus development.”

SpaceX’s most flown booster, B1067, started flying in June 2021 with the corporate’s twenty second Dragon flight as a part of the Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract with NASA. It went onto fly the Crew-3 and Crew-4 missions in addition to 24 batches of Starlink satellites.

Just a little greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1067 landed on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, positioned within the Atlantic Ocean. This was the one hundred and sixtieth touchdown for this vessel and the 635th booster touchdown up to now for SpaceX.